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Use WMI to get HDD's serial number

This is a snippet that can be used to retrieve the serial number of a HDD

Submitted By: PsychoCoder

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Language: C#

Last Modified: February 10, 2008

Instructions: Add a reference to the System.Management Namespace
Pass a drive letter to the method and it will return the serial number in string format. If a drive letter isn't provided it will default to the C drive

Snippet

//Namespace Reference
using System.Management
/// <summary>
/// method to retrieve the selected HDD's serial number
/// </summary>
/// <param name="strDriveLetter">Drive letter to retrieve serial number for</param>
/// <returns>the HDD's serial number</returns>
public string GetHDDSerialNumber(string drive)
{
//check to see if the user provided a drive letter
//if not default it to "C"
if (drive == "" || drive == null)
{
drive = "C";
}
//create our ManagementObject, passing it the drive letter to the
//DevideID using WQL
ManagementObject disk = new ManagementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=\"" + drive +":\"");
//bind our management object
disk.Get();
//return the serial number
return disk["VolumeSerialNumber"].ToString();
}